Paul Theroux Quotes
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
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We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
